Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1887-03-01
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

-Thirty-tour salt wells have been put
down in Wyoming County, N. T., this
year.
Nova Scotia ships thousands Of
barrels OF apples to New York City ov'
cry week.
Kansas has led all the States in the
Union tho past year in railroad build
ing. Chicago Journal.
There are 125 cheese factories in
ST. Lawrence County, N. Y. and last
year they manufactured and sold 49,
000, 900 pounds of cheese.
The German State Railway Coun-
Gil has forbidden the employment of
men in active service on tho railroads
beyond eight hours daily.
The culture of tobacco in Germany,
which has declined since 1881. is now
progressing, l.9S6,597 acres having
been planted this year, against 1852, :
S29 acres last year.
Some Northern manufacturers OF
stoves are M owing South in consequence
OF Western composition and on account
of the cheapness OF iron in Alabama and
Tennessee.
Nova Scotia's apple crop is larger
this season than for many years past
1t is estimated that there will. not be
fewer than 100000 barrels for export,
double tho quantity of last year.
In Wyoming County, New York.
the fruit evaporating industry has
completely died out. For awhile much
money was made in the business, bu
so many people went into it that a dc
cline was inevitable.
-Bricklayers have baen at work
nights on building in Rochester, N
Y, by the aid of electric lights. The
lights are arranged along the top OF
the building and the men lind they can
lay brick as well by them as by day
light. Buffalo Express.
One OF the industries OF Vermont
is the gathering of white pine cones
and extracting the seeds, which are
sent to Germany, France and Other
parts OF Europe. A bushel of cones
yields pound of seeds. The cones are
dried and the seeds beaten out.-Rat-
land Herald.
The Sheep Breeder aud Wool Grocer
says: "Letters from sheep breeders
and wool growers in every quarter in
dictate an almost remarkable revival OF
interest in an industry whose utter on
tinction was predicted by gloomy
prophets few years ago"
The Knights of Labor were organ
lied in Philadelphia in 1869. They
were first known publicly as the Teapot
club, because pot of tea was always
on hand at the meetings, for those
members who drank nothing stronger
mo intoxicating liquors. -PhiLd lei
phia Record
"A tract of land on tho western
shore of Cayuga Lake, near Canoga,
Jas been leased to Rochester parties
for the cultivation of frogs, The rails
ing of frogs for the New York market
has come TO be recognized industry.
There is large frog farm in the neigh
borhood of Waterloo and several in
Canada, and still the demand is greater
than the supply.-M Y Sun.
Great speed has been attained in
the manufacture of rifles. One hun
dred and twenty barrels can be rolled
in an holr by one machine; they are
Strengthened cold and bored with cor
responding speed, and even the riding
is now done automatically, so that one
man tending six machines can turn out
sixty or seventy barrels per day. With
the old riding machine twenty barrels
was about the limit of u days work, but
the improved machines attend to every
thing after they are once started, and
when the rifling is completed ring
bell to call the attention of the work.
man. lie is thus enabled to attend rs
many as six machines at time. Y.
Times.